Dedicated fans have finished the server emulator. For now it’s single player only, but they want to release multiplayer later.
You have to get the actual game files yourself (for obvious reasons), but you can find them easily, for example in the internet archive.
I’m in the middle of the campaign right now, and so far it works flawlessly.
And since this was the only racing game I played on a regular basis, I am happy! Fuck you Ubisoft! Thank you dedicated fans!!
If you have a PC or Laptop there is a good chance you could get it running, the game is pretty “old” and doesn’t scream for a high end gaming rig. Maybe that would be an option.
Yeah, a pc that runs the Crew well would be fairly cheap now. If you can’t just get one donated to you that would otherwise be going to the dump, picking one up from a garage sale or something would be pretty cheap. And you can hook a pc to a TV, set Steam to launch with Windows and enter bigscreen mode when it does. Steam bigscreen mode is used with a controller and has an option to turn off the computer in it’s menu. So you could do without a keyboard and mouse 99% of the time.